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Sixth-Gen Fighter Appears in FY’15 Budget

—John A. Tirpak3/13/2014

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The Air Force's Fiscal 2015 budget request includes $15.7 million to start work on a sixth generation
fighter to succeed the F-22, according to budget documents. Air Force Undersecretary
Eric Fanning told reporters in Washington, D.C., Tuesday that maintaining USAF’s technological edge was a “guiding principle” in building
the budget, and there was recognition that “to develop these types of platforms
requires long leads.” Even as the Air Force is producing the fifth-gen F-35, he
said, “We need to be investing in the research and science and technology
necessary to be looking at sixth generation.”